1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda jam. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 2: Nation down to the Jonesy demand of arms for the 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: pub test and today sending letters as it passed the 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 2: pub Test. 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,800 Speaker 3: Australia Post says it's at a crossroads. Expects to report 6 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 3: a full year loss for the first time since twenty 7 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 3: fifteen as let us continue a quote unstoppable decline. 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 2: But Australia Post has to pivot and I look at letters. 9 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 2: Letters are like records or DVDs or videos that they'll 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: always be around, and letters are important if you I've 11 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: had a couple of mates that it ended up on 12 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: the wrong side of the law and they ended up 13 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: in jail and a lot of the things about prisoners, 14 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: if you write them a letter, it gives them hope 15 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: that the outside hasn't forgotten about them, so when they 16 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: come out, they've got less chance of reoffending. So writing 17 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: a letter to someone in jail is very is very important. 18 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 3: So you're saying that we should keep the I think 19 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 3: we keep the letters. 20 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 2: But astraight, I think it's a thin edge of the 21 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 2: wedge saying oh, Australia Post is going to lose all 22 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: their money because people aren't writing letters. I don't think 23 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: people are writing letters anyway, there's only a fair few people. 24 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: They're just doing it so they can jack the price 25 00:00:58,920 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: of a stamper. 26 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 3: But they can't let the service go. 27 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: No, I don't think they a daily mail. 28 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 3: Service to put letters in your letterbox is still required, 29 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 3: and maybe that's what they're trying to move away from. 30 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 3: I don't know sending letters does it pass the pub test? 31 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: My wife an English teacher, and one of the things 32 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: she does with her students at the beginning of the 33 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: yews gets them to write a letter to her asking 34 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: how their best learning class and what do it achieve 35 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: for the year, and then she writes a letter back 36 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: to them. She's trying to keep the arts of letter 37 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: writing ongoing, and some of the letters that she gets 38 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: from the students are really personal and she gets to 39 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: find out things that she'd never find out otherwise. No, 40 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: it doesn't find. 41 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 2: It easier spending an email or social media contacting peoples 42 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 2: through that. 43 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely not. If it does. It's nice to send, 44 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 4: can't It's a nice to receipt, so use it does? 45 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 4: I think you know, we should keep a showy past 46 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 4: going for sending letters and can't well the party it. 47 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 2: Does, it's lost form people to send more letters, all 48 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: like the ones that we get in there, cut out 49 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: of the newspaper. 50 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 3: Writing that's nice and very creative. That's very creative.